How to Chunk (Memory)

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[Select the word that belongs in the blank space.] "_________" is the idea that a chunk you’ve mastered in one area can often help you much more easily learn chunks of information in different areas that can share surprising commonalities. recall overlearning transfer

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chunking interleaving

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Three steps were mentioned as being vitally important in making a chunk. Pick those three things out from the list below. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/quiz/tF3mC/retrieval-practice

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Practice to help you gain mastery and a sense of the bigpicture context.

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Exercise

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Simple memorization

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Understanding of the basic idea.

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Spending time away from the material

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Focused attention.

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Which statement best describes "deliberate practice"? Focusing intently on the parts of the problem that are more difficult to you.

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Deliberate practice is continuing to focus of the material you find hardest and is important to productive studying.

Varying your learning by switching between types of problems or taking a break. Actively reviewing material when you are doing something else. Using the "generation effect" of recall of a body of material instead of re-reading the material.

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Select which of the following statements are true about chunking: "Chunking" involves compressing information more compactly--this is part of why it is easier to draw a "chunked" idea or concept into mind.

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As you gain more experience in chunking in any particular subject, you will see that the chunks you are able to create are bigger—in some sense, the ribbons are longer.

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Concepts and problem-solving methods you might learn for physics can be very similar to chunked concepts in business.

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When you are trying to figure something out, if you have a good library of chunks, you can more easily skip to the right solution by—metaphorically speaking—“listening” to whispers from your diffuse mode. Your diffuse mode can help you connect two or more chunks together in new ways to solve novel problems. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/quiz/tF3mC/retrieval-practice

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Select the following true statements about learning, as discussed on this module's videos. Once you’ve got the basic idea down during a session, continuing to hammer away at it during the same session doesn’t strengthen the kinds of long-term memory connections you want to have strengthened. Worse yet, focusing on one technique is a little like learning carpentry by only practicing with a hammer. After a while, you think you can fix anything by just bashing it.

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Interleaving your studies—making a point to review for a test, for example, by skipping around through problems in the different chapters and materials—can sometimes seem to make your learning more difficult. But in reality, it helps you learn more deeply.

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Although practice and repetition are important in helping build solid neural patterns to draw on, it’s interleaving that starts building flexibility and creativity. It’s where you leave the world of practice and repetition and begin thinking more independently.

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One significant mistake students sometimes make in learning is jumping into the water before they learn to swim. In other words, they blindly start working on homework without reading the textbook, attending lectures, viewing online lessons, or speaking with someone knowledgeable.

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It’s like randomly allowing a thought to pop off in the focused-mode pinball machine without paying any real attention to where the solution truly lies.

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The neuromodulators acetylcholine, dopamine, and serotonin were mentioned as affecting specific areas in Dr. Sejnowski's video. Select the three true statements below, based on Dr. Sejnowski's video, about which areas these neurotransmitters affect. Acetylcholine affects focused learning and attention

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Dopamine signals in relation to unexpected reward

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Serotonin affects social life and risk-taking behavior

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Acetylcholine affects unexpected reward

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Dopamine signals in relation to focused learning and attention

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Serotonin signals in relation to focused learning and attention

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